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Family & Parenting Quotes

Quran and Hadith quotes about parents, children, raising a family, and honoring family bonds.

Quran

وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ الَّذِي تَسَاءَلُونَ بِهِ وَالْأَرْحَامَ١

Fear Allah through whom you ask, and the wombs that bore you.

Surah An-Nisa 1
Quran

وَقَضَىٰ رَبُّكَ أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ وَبِالْوَالِدَيْنِ إِحْسَانًا٢٣

Your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and be dutiful to parents.

Surah Al-Isra 23
Quran

وَوَصَّيْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنًا عَلَىٰ وَهْنٍ١٤

And We have enjoined upon man [care] for his parents. His mother carried him, [increasing her] in weakness upon weakness, and his weaning is in two years.

Surah Luqman 14
Hadith

The Prophet ﷺ said: 'Jannah (Paradise) lies at the feet of your mothers.'

— Hadith, Sunan an-Nasa'i
Hadith

The Prophet ﷺ said: 'He is not one of us who does not show mercy to our young ones and respect to our elders.'

— Hadith, Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Hadith

O Allah, bless me in my family, bless me in my progeny. You are the One who hears and answers prayers.

— Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari
Quran

رَبِّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ يَقُومُ الْحِسَابُ٤١

My Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers.

Surah Ibrahim 41
Hadith

The supplication of a Muslim for his brother in his absence is answered. At his head there is an angel appointed, and every time he makes a supplication for his brother with good, the angel says, 'Ameen, and for you the same.'

— Hadith, Sahih Muslim
Hadith

The believers, in their mutual kindness, compassion, and sympathy, are like one body — when one part of it suffers, the whole body responds with wakefulness and fever.

— Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari
Quran

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُونُوا قَوَّامِينَ بِالْقِسْطِ شُهَدَاءَ لِلَّهِ وَلَوْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِكُمْ أَوِ الْوَالِدَيْنِ وَالْأَقْرَبِينَ١٣٥

O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives.

Surah An-Nisa 135

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